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TIL that each commercial airplane in the U.S. is struck by lightning more than once every year on average.

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bxK4 TIL that in Persian rug making, a deliberate mistake is always placed in the rug because ‘to weave a perfect rug or carpet would be an offence to Allah’
rNEQ0 TIL the US government owns 80.1% of all the land in Nevada, 61.3% of all the land in Alaska, and 24.7% of all the land in the US.
BNBD TIL that a man saved 669 kids during WWII and lived almost all his life without letting people know.
rNWvM TIL that in the US, small business owners are incentivised to buy large, heavy cars rather than small, efficient ones.
NJZM TIL of Pando, a grove of aspen trees in Utah that is actually a single organism with 40,000 stems (trunks). Some experts believe that Pando may be up to a million years old.